[{"id": 143681, "created": "2020-07-11T08:12:57.460996", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84916, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-07-11T08:38:41.439241", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "TQ 61;77", "Site": "ESSEX;THURROCK;GRAYS;THURLOE WALK", "CollHist": "Thurrock Local History Museum Tilbury. Acc. Nos 34-47, 50-51 (Items 1-8) and (13-22)\r\nE.M.C. 3 (1-20) Items (23-27) in private hands. Loaned to Museum for recording", "Contents": "Metal\r\n(1) Socketed axe, plain\r\n(2) Socketed axe, wing decoration\r\n(3) Socketed axe as (2)\r\n(4) Socketed axe, south Welsh type\r\n(5) Socketed axe, single pellet decoration\r\n(6) Socketed axe, V-decoration\r\n(7) Socketed axe, plain\r\n(8) Socketed axe, plain\r\n(9-12) Four socketed axes of unknown type (lost)\r\n(13) Socketed axe, plain, part of mouth and body missing\r\n(14) Butt fragment of a plain socketed axe\r\n(15) Blade fragment of a plain socketed axe\r\n(16) Blade fragment of a ribbed axe\r\n(17) Blade fragment of a plain socketed axe\r\n(18) Blade fragment of a plain socketed axe\r\n(19) Butt fragment of a plain socketed axe\r\n(20) Hilt fragment of a sword (Ewart)\r\n(21) Blade fragment of a sword (Ewart)\r\n(22) Sixteen lumps of copper cake\r\n(23) Socketed axe, single pellet decoration\r\n(24) Socketed axe, 3 pellets on each face, the socket of which contained : -\r\n(25) Small pieces of copper cake which had plugged the socket of (24)\r\n(26) Small flat fragment of copper cake\r\n(27) Strip bronze finger ring\r\n(28) Bar toggle (Urnfield type) loop broken off\r\n(29) Fragment of toggle as (28)\r\n(30) Fragment of cylindrical rod\r\n(31) Angled fragment of a socketed tool, probably an axe\r\n(32-35) Four angled fragments of socketed tools\r\n(36) Fragment of sheet bronze with one straight edge\r\n(37) Fragment of pitted bronze\r\nOther\r\n(38) Fragment of flint, unworked", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 13.10.80", "ContextType": "? 7B", "BiblioSources": "(a) Thurrock Local History Museum Catalogue. Entries 71-85\r\n(b) Doyle (1970) 61-64\r\n(c) Coombs (1971) App 1. Figs 129-134\r\n(d) Raftery (1975) 84", "Circumstances": "Not recorded. (a) gives brief details of a Founder's hoard consisting of twelve socketed 'celts', seven 'imperfect celts', two pieces of a bronze sword and sixteen 'lumps of bronze meta' (copper ingots). These items, according to (b) appear to have arrived at the Thurrock Local History Museum, then at Grays, around October 1930, via a Mr Thwaites, but the finder is unknown.\r\nSince 1930, bombing in World War II, an inundation by the Thames, and a robbery, have depleted the hoard. Four socketed axes (9-12) and eight of the 16 pieces of metal cake (22) have been lost.\r\nIt had been thought that all the originally discovered collection had come to the Museum in 1930. However in 1969 it was learned that two further socketed axes (23-24) were in private possession, the provenance given as \"behind Hathaway Road, Grays\". As it was further stated that the objects were part of a hoard already in the collection of the Museum (b) assumes that the specimens could only belong to the Thurloe Walk group. The axes (23-24) had come recently, after the death of the previous owner, into fresh hands and it was learned that one of the axes (24) had thereafter accidentally been dropped, dislodging a small piece of copper ingot which had plugged the socket. A scatter of diminutive objects had fallen free of their container (25-37). The freshly revealed specimens (23-27) were subsequently loaned to the Museum for recording", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}, {"id": 145862, "created": "2020-08-14T02:03:07.749188", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84916, "user_id": 658, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-08-14T02:30:17.986374", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "TQ 61 77", "Site": "Essex, Thurrock, Grays, Thurloe Walk", "CollHist": "Collection:\r\nThurrock Local History Museum, Tilbury\r\nAcc. Nos. 34-47, 50-51\r\n          (Items 1-8) and (13-22)\r\n\r\nE.M.C. 3(1-20) Items 23-37) in private hands. Loaned to Museum for recording.", "Contents": "Metal:\r\n(1) Socketed axe, plain\r\n(2) Socketed axe, wing decoration\r\n(3) Socketed axe as (2)\r\n(4) Socketed axe, south Welsh type\r\n(5) Socketed axe, single pellet decoration\r\n(6) Socketed axe, V-decoration\r\n(7) Socketed axe, plain\r\n(8) Socketed axe, plain\r\n(9-12) Four socketed axes of unknown type (lost)\r\n(13) Socketed axe, plain, part of mouth and body missing\r\n(14) Butt fragment of a plain socketed axe\r\n(15) Blade fragment of a plain socketed axe\r\n(16) Blade fragment of a ribbed axe\r\n(17) Blade fragment of a plain socketed axe\r\n(18) Blade fragment of a plain socketed axe\r\n(19) Butt fragment of a plain socketed axe\r\n(20) Hilt fragment of a sword (Ewart)\r\n(21) Blade fragment of a sword (Ewart)\r\n(22) Sixteen lumps of copper cake\r\n(23) Socketed axe, single pellet decoration\r\n(24) Socketed axe, 3 pellets on each face, the socket of which contained:-\r\n(25) Small piece of copper cake which had plugged the socket of (24)\r\n(26) Small flat fragment of copper cake\r\n(27) Strip bronze finger ring\r\n(28) Bar toggle (Urnfield type), loop broken off\r\n(29) Fragment of toggle as (28)\r\n(30) Fragment of cylindrical rod\r\n(31) Angled fragment of a socketed tool, probably an axe\r\n(32-35) Four angled fragments of socketed tools\r\n(36) Fragment of sheet bronze with one straight edge\r\n(37) Fragment of pitted bronze\r\n\r\nOther:\r\n(38) Fragment of flint, unworked", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec.: S.H. 13.10.80", "ContextType": "?7B", "BiblioSources": "(a) Thurrock Local History Museum Catalogue: Entries 71-85\r\n(b) Doyle (1970) 61-64\r\n(c) Coombs (1971) App. 1. Figs. 129-134\r\n(d) Raftery (1975) 84", "Circumstances": "     Not recorded. (a) gives brief details of a Founder's hoard consisting of twelve socketed 'celts', seven 'imperfect celts', two pieces of a bronze sword and sixteen 'lumps of  bronze metal' (copper ingots). These items, according to (b) appear to have arrived at the Turrock Local History Museum, then at Grays, around October 1930, via a Mr. Thwaites, but the finder is unknown.\r\n     Since 1930, bombing in World War II, an inundation by the Thames, and a robbery, have depleted the hoard. Four socketed axes (9-12) and eight of the 16 pieces of metal cake (22) have been lost.\r\n     It had been thought that all the originally discovered collection had come to the Museum in 1930. However in 1969 it was learned that two further socketed axes (23-24) were in private possession, the provenance given as \"behind Hathaway Road, Grays\". As it was further stated that the objects were part of a hoard already in the collection of the Museum, (b) assumes that the specimens could only belong to the Thurloe Walk group. The axes (23-24) had come recently, after the death of the previous owner, into fresh hands and it was learned that one of the axes (24) had thereafter accidentally been dropped, dislodging a small piece of copper ingot which had plugged the socket. A scatter of diminutive objects had fallen free of their container (25-37). The freshly revealed specimens (23-27) were subsequently loaned to the Museum for recording.", "FindAltSiteRel": ""}}]